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Subject: Re: Do Zeus and Jupiter derive from `light' ?
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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 07:11:58 GMT
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In article <3sot2o$rtp@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk> richardm@dilithium (Tin Tin) writes:
>schiller c (schiller@prl.philips.nl) wrote:
>: A friend of mine mantains that the ethymology of
>: Zeus and the Ju in jupiter is the same and derives from
>: an old root meaning light.
>
>: Another friend mantains that they derive from a root 
>: meaning bright sky. Which one is right?
>
>
>I remember reading somewhere in a book on language families that Jupiter comes
>from old Sanskrit. I can't remember the spelling but basically it is (according
>to the book - and my memory!), from two old words Ju and p'ter, which came toegther
>to mean God the father, cfr dieu / pater.
>
I recall "DYAUS PATAR" or something like that, 
meaning "sky father". 


dyaus pitar
deus patar
zeus pitar
ju pitar

This is from memory and probably in error, but maybe
it'll jog someone else's memory.


